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19th Mar 2024

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Czech PM: No joint 'V4' candidate in commission race

Czech premier Andrej Babis said the Visegrad 4 countries do not have a joint candidate for Commission president, nor for European Council president, after a meeting of the V4 ahead of next week's EU summit. "The point is for us all to choose the best candidate for everybody," Reuters quoted Babis. Hungarian premier Viktor Orban's spokesman said the group would "represent a shared point of view" on personnel and policy.

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Borrell: 'Israel provoking famine', urges more aid access

70 percent of northern Gaza is facing famine, new data shows. There is one shower per 5,500 people, and 888 people per toilet. 'How can you live in these conditions?" asked Natalie Boucly of UNRWA at the European Humanitarian Forum.

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Potential legal avenues to prosecute Navalny's killers

The UN could launch an independent international investigation into Navalny's killing, akin to investigation I conducted on Jamal Khashoggi's assassination, or on Navalny's Novichok poisoning, in my role as special rapporteur on extrajudicial executions, writes the secretary-general of Amnesty International.

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